See high schools where each Michigan college draws the most students

Of the 102,334 public school students in Michigan's Class of 2017, about 61 percent -- 62,806 -- enrolled in college with six months of leaving high school, according to state data.

The No. 1 destination: Michigan State University, which enrolled more than 5,000 of those students.

The No. 1 high school sending students to MSU: Northville High School in Wayne County, where 112 teens went to Michigan State. That's 22 percent of Northville's Class of 2017.

This post looks at the top high schools sending students to each of Michigan's 15 public universities and 24 private colleges. It also includes data for the 15 community colleges enrolling the most students from the Class of 2017.

The data from this post uses data collected by the Michigan Center for Educational Performance and Information. (The state only tracks public-school graduates, so the private schools are not included here)

First, here's an online database that allows you to look up any high school in Michigan and see where its Class of 2017 enrolled in college.

College destination by high school

A big caveat about the data: There is likely underreporting. CEPI got the numbers by matching Michigan's official list of public high school students against enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse Student Tracker.

However, the student's name or date of birth must be an exact match. Also, not every college participates in the National Student Clearinghouse program. (Among the non-participants: Hillsdale College, Notre Dame and the U.S. military academies.)

A few highlights from the data:

About 89 percent of college-going students stayed in Michigan;

About 45 percent enrolled at a Michigan public university;

About 36 percent enrolled at a Michigan community college;

About 9 percent enrolled at a Michigan private college.

Of the 11 percent going out-of-state, the No. 1 destination was University of Toledo, which enrolled 467 Michigan public school students from the Class of 2017.

Among those who went to elite schools: 22 Michigan public-school grads went to Harvard; 18 to University of Chicago; 17 to Northwestern University and 13 enrolled at Yale. (By typing the name of a college into our online database above, you see the high schools where those students came from.)

Next is the list of Michigan's 15 public universities, ranked by the number of public-school students they enrolled from the state's Class of 2017. (Note: Class of 2017 numbers include those who entered as transfer students as well as first-time freshman.)

Michigan State University: 5,066

Michigan State University: 5,066

MSU had 8,108 first-time freshmen in fall 2017, and enrolled 5,066 Michigan public school students from the Class of 2017.

Here's a list of the public schools sending the most students, the number they sent and the percentage of college-going students from that class who enrolled at MSU:

Northville High School: 112, 22%;

Utica Eisenhower High School: 83, 16%;

Detroit Cass Technical High School: 82, 25%;

Rochester Adams High School: 81, 235;

Novi High School: 75, 19%;

Grosse Pointe South High School: 73 , 20%;

Birmingham Seaholm High School: 69, 24%;

Rochester Stoney Creek High School: 69, 22%;

Lake Orion High School: 67, 16%;

Clarkston High School: 66, 15%;

Forest Hills Central High School: 64, 24%'

Brighton High School: 64 , 16%;

Okemos High School: 63, 26%;

Troy High School: 63, 16%;

Walled Lake Northern High School: 61, 19%.

Grand Valley State University: 3,023

Grand Valley State University: 3,023

GVSU had 3,185 first-time freshmen in fall 2017, and enrolled 3,023 Michigan public school students from the Class of 2017.

Here's a list of the public schools sending the most students, the number they sent and the percentage of college-going students from that class who enrolled at GVSU:

Jenison High School: 57, 24%;

Hudsonville High School: 57, 21%;

Grand Haven High School: 50, 18%;

Rockford High School: 49, 13%;

Walled Lake Northern High School: 42, 13%;

West Ottawa High School: 41, 15%;

Lake Orion High School: 36, 8%;

Grandville High School: 35, 12%;

Brighton High School: 35, 9%;

Allendale High School: 33, 30%;

Caledonia High School: 32, 14%;

East Kentwood High School: 31, 9%;

Rochester Stoney Creek High School: 31, 10%;

Canton High School: 31, 7%;

Utica Eisenhower High School: 30, 6%;

Clarkston High School: 30, 7%.

University of Michigan: 2,875

University of Michigan: 2,875

U-M had 6,847 first-time freshmen in fall 2017, and enrolled 2,875 Michigan public school students from the Class of 2017.

Here's a list of the public schools sending the most students, the number they sent and the percentage of college-going students from that class who enrolled at U-M: